Update: Black Friday is now over - but there's still one last day of deals! Check out all the best Cyber Monday 2017 deals before they're all gone.

Black Friday 2017 may technically be over now but many of the best deals are still available as we roll into the weekend, so it's still well worth having a look through our list of the best remaining offers.

We've seen loads of truly tempting phone deals on products including the Samsung Galaxy S8, iPhone 7, 8 and X as well as 100GB for £20 SIM only deal from Three and some SIM free options too - most of these you can still get.

PlayStation VR, PS4 Pro and Nintendo Switch were three of the most popular products all day with many of the best bundles being snapped up in just a few seconds.

Black Friday 2017 itself was expected to be the biggest day of spending the country has ever seen with UK shoppers expected to buy £10.1bn worth of goods by the time Monday ends. That would be about enough to buy a new PS4 for every man, woman and child in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

TechRadar has received record traffic all day so we can confirm there's been more interest in Black Friday than ever before. So take a look at the best of the remaining Black Friday deals as we head towards Cyber Monday 2017.

The best Black Friday VPN deal:IPVanish: $2.87 per month (down from $10)Get up to 73% Off TechRadar's #1 Rated VPN Service. IPVanish's top-tier network delivered some of the fastest speeds in our tests. Its zero log policy gives you total privacy and peace of mind. Hurry up because this offer won't last long.View Deal

SIM only deal | 100GB data | Unlimited calls | Unlimited texts | £20 per monthIs this the best Black Friday deal so far? Probably! 100GB data SIM only for just £20 per month? It's £4 cheaper than Three's cheapest 'unlimited data' plan but 100GB is as much data as you'd ever need, plus Three's 'Go Binge' scheme means streaming music and movies doesn't even count against your allowance. See this 100GB SIM only deal at Three.co.uk
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iPhone 8 64GB | O2 | £175 upfront (with 10OFF code) | Unlimited calls and texts | 12GB data| £29pmWe were waiting for something special on the iPhone 8, and finally Mobiles.co.uk dropped it. This is the best iPhone 8 deal of Black Friday. It's now less than £30 per month for a very healthy 12GB of data. We'll be surprised if you find anything better this sales period. View this iPhone 8 deal at Mobiles.co.ukView Deal

iPhone 7 | O2 | £75 £50 handset (with BLACKFRI25 code) | Unlimited calls and texts | 12GBdata | £29 per month
This isn't the very cheapest iPhone 7 deal we've ever seen, but it's the best value considering you get a generous 12GB of data. It's less than £750 in total over two years for a 2016 flagship iPhone - bargain! Get this discounted iPhone 7 deal now (Voucher code: BLACKFRI25)View Deal

White PS4 Slim | Star Wars: Battlefront II | GT Sport | Hidden Agenda | £199.99 @ Very
And another great PS4 deal and with the white PS4 to boot. This bundle throws you into the Star Wars universe once again with Battlefront 2.

PS4 Pro | GT Sport | Call of Duty: WWII | £299.99 @ Very
This is another major discount we've seen today on the PS4 Pro and it's getting bundled in with two brand new games. An absolute bargain overall for under £300 at Very.

15% off the Dell XPS 15This notebook makes our best laptops list, and indeed we declared it the best 15-inch laptop currently available. The discount code SAVE15 at checkout reduces the price of the cheapest XPS 15 sold by Dell from £1,429 to £1,214.View Deal

Amazon Fire TV stick - now £24.99 (was £39.99):The Amazon Fire Stick is reduced impressively - save £15 on the previous price and pick it up for just £24.99, which is a 38% saving, and it comes with Alexa integrated (although it doesn't have 4K playback). This is a brilliant product as a stupendous price and that's why it's one of our top top Black Friday deals this year.View Deal

Black or White PS4 Pro | GT Sport | £299.95 @ John Lewis
This is the cheapest PS4 Pro deal around right now. The only reason it's not higher up in our list of recommendations is that you can get Call of Duty too elsewhere for just £18 extra. If you don't want COD though, this is the best deal.

Vodafone Unlimited Fibre 38 | 18 months | Up to 38Mb | Line rental inc. | FREE activation | £25£20 per monthWe've never seen a cheaper fibre broadband deal than this £20 per month tariff from Vodafone. You may be tied in for the next 18 months, but at this price why should you care!

Virgin VIVID 100 with Full House bundle | 12 months | Up to 100Mb | Line rental inc. | 230+ TV channels inc. BT Sport |£56£46 per month + 6 months of NetflixConsidering the speed of the connection, amount of channels, and inclusion of BT Sport and Netflix, there isn't a better value broadband and TV deal out there.

Totally Unlimited Origin Broadband | 12 months | Up to 17Mb | Line rental inc. |£139.99 for the yearThis is the UK's cheapest home internet deal - and it's exclusive to TechRadar readers! You have to pay in one lump sum, but the effective monthly payments are only £11.67.

Sony Bravia KDL49WE753 - down to £399 (was £750): If you're after a 49-inch TV, this TV is cheapest at Amazon at just £399 currently - almost half price! It's designed for picture quality and a low price, so other features might be squeezed - but that shouldn't worry you if you're not looking for a really high end model.View Deal

HP laptop: Currys is advertising a 'Black Friday Price Now' sticker on this laptop - it was £549 but it's down to £349. It's got an Intel Core i3-7100U CPU, 4GB RAM and 1TB storage alongside its full HD screen. Not the fastest laptop in the world but this is a good price for a solid system.View Deal

Medion Akoya P6677 now £499.99This budget laptop from Medion has had a £100 price cut, and now comes in at just under £500 at Argos. An Intel Core i5-7200U processor, 1TB hard drive and 940MX graphics card give it a decent level of power, and it has a nice 15.6-inch screen. One thing to note is that it only has 4GB of RAM.View Deal

Samsung Galaxy S8 | O2 |£90 £60 upfront (with TRBLKFRIS8 code) | 4GB data | Unlimited minutes and texts | £26pm
Very simply put, this is the best Galaxy S8 deal ever! And thanks to the exclusive discount code we've agreed with Mobiles.co.uk, the two year price comes in under £700. Remember to enter TRBLKFRIS8 at the checkout. Total cost over 24 months is £686

Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus | FREE upfront | Unlimited calls and texts | 16GB data| £37.50pm (after cashback)As above, so below - this is the same tariff as the iPhone 8 but on Samsung's massive S8 Plus. The £84 cashback brings the total price under the £900 mark - no other tariff gets close, even if you drop down to 1GB of data!

iPhone 6 | FREE upfront | Unlimited calls and texts | 6GB data | £22pm (after cashback)
There's a massive £120 saving on this iPhone 6 deal, thanks to some hefty cashback. The iPhone 6 has been very popular so far this Black Friday, and this new price is only going to exacerbate that. Nice bit of data on this one, too.

iPhone 8 64GB | O2 | £175 upfront (with 10OFF code) | Unlimited calls and texts | 12GB data| £29pmWe were waiting for something special on the iPhone 8, and finally Mobiles.co.uk dropped it. It's now less than £30 per month for a very healthy 12GB of data. We'll be surprised if you find anything better this sales period.

Google Pixel 2 | O2 | £125£75 upfront (use code 10OFF code) | Unlimited calls and texts | 12GB data| £29pm
When the Pixel 2 opened for pre-orders in October, there were scarcely any overall prices for less than £1000 to recommend. A month on, for Black Friday you can get a mighty 12GB of data for well under £800 over the course of the two year deal. Click here to see this Google Pixel 2 deal Use voucher: 10OFFView Deal

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 | O2 |£210 £200 upfront (with 10OFF code) | 12GB data | Unlimited minutes and texts | £29pm
We were really keeping our fingers crossed that we'd see one of the big networks breach the £900 threshold this Black Friday - but we hadn't dared imagine that you'd get a massive 12GB of data to play with when they did! The cheapest ever Note 8 deal.

iD | 1 month contract | 2.25GB data | 250 mins | 5000 texts | £5 per monthCarphone Warehouse owned-iD has been the go-to network for cheap SIM only deals for some time now. And it hasn't let us down this Black Friday. If you're just looking for something to tide you over and don't want a full year commitment, then this is a superb option.

SIM Only | 5GB data | 500 mins | Unlimited texts | £6.50 per month: TechRadar teamed up with Vodafone and Mobile Phones Direct to offer TR readers the cheapest-ever 5GB SIM only deal in the UK. With £84 cashback, you can effectively get this SIM plan for just £6.50 per month. Get this 5GB Vodafone SIM only deal nowView Deal

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge | Three |FREE upfront | 4GB data | Unlimited minutes and texts | £23 per month
Even six months ago, you would have had to put aside £30 a month to get the marvelous S7 Edge. Now it's down almost as low as £20, and you don't even have to pay a penny upfront. It's a ludicrous Black Friday bargain.

iPhone 8 64GB | O2 | £225£175 upfront (with TR50IPH8 code) | Unlimited calls and texts | 12GB data| £32pm
With our exclusive £50 TR50IPH8 discount code, this is now the cheapest way to get the iPhone 8. The value is made even better by the retailer's quadruple data offer. It's the best iPhone 8 deal we've seen to date. Total cost over 24 months is £943

iPhone 7 | O2 | £75 £50 handset (with BLACKFRI25 code) | Unlimited calls and texts | 12GBdata | £29 per month
This isn't the very cheapest iPhone 7 deal we've ever seen, but it's the best value considering you get a generous 12GB of data. It's less than £750 in total over two years for a 2016 flagship iPhone - bargain! Total cost over 24 months is £746

iPhone 7 32GB | Virgin Mobile | FREE upfront | Unlimited calls and texts | 1.2GB data | £19pm
£19 for Apple's flagship phone is ludicrously cheap, particularly when you consider that it doesn't cost a thing upfront either. 1.2GB not enough data for you? Then an extra £3 per month takes you up to 5GB. The only hitch is that you'll be tied in to a three-year contract.

iPhone 6S 32GB | EE | £99 upfront | Unlimited calls and texts | 2GB data | £22.99pm
£22.99 is an excellent monthly bill for a phone that remains one of our all time faves. This offer is not to be sniffed at, especially when you look around at the cost of the iPhone 8 and X. Total cost over 24 months is £650.76

iPhone 8 64GB | £225£175 upfront (with TR50IPH8 code) | Unlimited calls and texts | 12GB data| £32pm
This iPhone 8 deal is another exclusive for TechRadar readers and gives you the chance to get the iPhone 8 with 12GB data for just £32 per month and £175 upfront (use voucher TR50IPH8 to get the £50 discount). This deal is not only about £150 cheaper than equivalent iPhone 7 tariffs, but a massive £500 cheaper than current iPhone X deals! Total cost over 24 months is £943

It was one of the most surprising games of the year but Mario Rabbids is an excellent console exclusive and this remains one of the best deals you'll get on a Switch bundle at the moment. It's only with the grey console now.

Nintendo Switch | Super Mario Odyssey or FIFA 18 or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or Zelda: Breath of the Wild | £309.99 @ SmythsYou can choose from one of the games above in this excellent selection of Nintendo Switch bundles from Smyths. All of these games cost over £40 on their own, so you are saving money, whichever option you pick.

PS4 Pro | GT Sport | Call of Duty: WWII | £299.99 @ Very
This is the first major discount we've seen on the white PS4 Pro and it's getting bundled in with two brand new games. An absolute bargain overall for under £300 at Zavvi.

White PS4 Pro | GT Sport | £299.95 @ John Lewis
If you're specifically after a white version of the PS4 Pro, take a look at this offer from John Lewis. It's not a massive saving over what's listed above, but does benefit from John Lewis's superior warranty scheme, keeping you covered should the console break down.

PS4 Slim | Call of Duty: WWII | £299.99 @ VeryNeed a new PS4 to just dive into the brand new Call of Duty: WWII? Then this is your absolute cheapest option, saving you over £40 compared to buying the two on their own. You get a free PSN party game too in the shape of That's You.

1TB PS4 Slim | FIFA 18 | £229 @ Amazon
Even if you don't like FIFA, this is the best 1TB PS4 deal going. This PS4 bundle costs less than most stores usually charge for a 1TB PS4 on its own and you're getting a free copy of FIFA 18. This is fantastic value as the extra storage space comes in handy soon enough once you have a few games installed.

1TB Green Camouflage PS4 Slim | Call of Duty: WWII | £229 @ TescoWhile the console's camo look won't be for everyone, we can't argue with the value here as you'd struggle to get a regular 1TB PS4 Sim on its own for this price. You're also getting the upcoming Call of Duty: WWII thrown in for free.

1TB Star Wars PS4 Slim | Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Elite Trooper Deluxe Edition | £249.99 @ ArgosWhile this is one of the more expensive 1TB PS4 Slim deals on the market this is a limited edition console with a unique Star Wars design on the grey console. That and you're getting the fancier version of the game with lots of multiplayer boosts. This version of the game still costs about £70 on its own.

Gran Turismo Sport Limited Edition 1TB PS4 Slim | £229.99 @ GameNow £40 cheaper than last week! This new limited edition 1TB PS4 console is out now alongside the new GT Sport game. Naturally, you're getting a copy for the game in this bundle too, along with 250k in in-game credits and a few bits of DLC. This is strictly for hardcore GT fans though really as you're paying quite a bit extra for the Gran Turismo livery paint-job on the console and DualShock 4.

Xbox One S | Minecraft bundle | Fallout 4 | Doom | £169.99 @ CurrysExpect retailers to really go at each other today in order to get your cash. In addition to the Minecraft bundle you're also getting the double whammy of Doom and Fallout 4.

Xbox One S | Minecraft bundle | 3 month Xbox Live Gold | £169.99 @ Very
Need a new console and a new obsession all at once? Then this Minecraft bundle is the one for you with a cheapest price yet of just £169.99. That's an amazing Black Friday deal.

Xbox One S | Forza 7 | Plus either Destiny 2, Battlefront II or FIFA 18 | £219.99 @ ArgosWhile this might be one of the higher-priced bundles, you are getting two very new games with this deal, each worth around £40 each.

Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids tablet - now £89.99 (was £129.99):
You might be thinking an extra £20 is quite a lot seeing as this tablet is only an inch bigger than the one above. But you are getting a HD screen on this one so everything will be clearer and video content will look much better. Still a great price at just £89.99. Again, this deal will end on November 27.

Save £100 on a Canon EOS 6D bodyIt's been around since 2012, but it's a camera that's been loved by enthusiast photographers and is a solid camera to get into full-frame photography. The Canon Store is selling the EOS 6D at £999 - £100 less the most other retailers.

Pick-up a GoPro Hero6 Black for just £431.10The GoPro Hero6 is our pick of the action cams, and AO.com is offering 10% discount of an already competitive £479, bringing the price down to £431.10. That's a saving of almost £70. Use 10ACTION at the checkout to redeem your discount.

It may only have a 12MP resolution, but the full-frame Alpha A7S has an ISO ceiling of 102,400 and excellent 4K video capture credentials. Wex Photo Video is reducing it from £1,800 to just £1,609, while there's a further £200 cashback deduction.

Canon's EOS M6 mirrorless is a solid all-round performer with a growing lens range. Get this 15-45mm kit from the Canon Store for just £579.99, saving £100. The saving will be applied once you've added it to your basket.

Garmin Forerunner 235 - now £199 (was £299.99)While it may be a couple of years old now, the Garmin Forerunner 235 is still a brilliant run-tracker. As it's a little older it isn't usually its full RRP, but this is the cheapest we've ever seen it. Where the 235 really stands out is in the insights it provides.

Polar M600 - now £195 (was £299)If you're looking for a competent blend of fitness tracker and smartwatch, the Polar M600 is the device you're looking for. Although it hasn't been its RRP of £313.57 for a while now, getting this great fitness tracker for less than £200 is a great deal.

Black Friday is always the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving in the US - this year that falls this coming Friday - the 22nd November - and is the day when most retailers put on a spectacular day of bargainous deals in all categories from phones, tablets and laptops to shoes, fridges and clothes.

Black Friday is now so big that instead of lasting one day, it's a 'deals season' which tends to span from roughly the middle of November until at least the end of Cyber Monday - the Monday after the day itself. In the US, Cyber Monday is the bigger day with sales this year expected to top last year's $3.45bn.

Amazon's Black Friday campaign kicked off this morning with a range of deals across many categories including tech. It's running ten days of deals in total, ending on Sunday 26th before Cyber Monday takes over.

Currys has also launched a batch of 'Why Wait?' early Black Friday deals for you to have a browse. Argos has launched a Black Friday deals page but in truth there are very few deals to get excited about at Argos so far.John Lewis is just quietly price matching in the background but we're expecting both of those sites to come to the party from this weekend onwards.

We've looked through thousands of deals and chosen what we think are the best Black Friday deals so far. We'll keep the page up to date with all the latest offers so stick with TechRadar and we'll navigate Black Friday together!

As a sales event, Black Friday is bettered only by Singles Day (11th November annually), the day on which young people in China celebrate singledom through the medium of copious spending at Alibaba.com.

For Black Friday, and indeed Black November, this year we will be keeping our fingers on the pulse of the UK market throughout the month, bringing you all of the best deals on the best products from the best retailers. We're expecting to see the big sites like Amazon, Currys and Argos launch deals earlier than ever before - so don't be surprised if Currys' Blag Tag deals start in hte next week or so!

It’s actually ironic that Black Friday drives so much traffic to websites like TechRadar, because the term used to refer to more traditional types of traffic – the name was first used by US police to describe the traffic gridlock that occurred when everybody hit the shops at the same time before the holidays.

Black Friday still happens on the high street, but increasingly the best deals – and the most shoppers – are online. And that's why every year TechRadar rounds up all of the best deals, so you can find the best-value offers on the nicest stuff and be confident you're getting the best price.

What's more, we'll be bringing you exclusive deals on top mobiles phones like the iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy S8 and Google Pixel with prices cheaper than at any other point of the year - these deals will be exclusively available to TechRadar readers so stay with us if you're looking for a new mobile phone this November and December!

When is Black Friday and what is it exactly?

Black Friday is always the Friday that immediately follows the Thanksgiving holiday in the US – so Black Friday 2017 will take place on November 24. No matter that the UK doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving, Black Friday is now a global phenomenon.

Black Friday – and increasingly by the year, Black November – is now the starting gun for the Christmas shopping season, and it’s famous for what retailers call 'doorbusters' – deals so good that shoppers will try and break down the front doors of stores to get at them.

Inevitably that means it’s also slightly infamous, with each year delivering a new selection of YouTube delights depicting keen shoppers slugging it out for the right to claim a limited number of probably-awful but definitely super-cheap 4K TVs.

Things got so bad on Black Friday three years ago that ASDA, Walmart’s UK brand and the firm largely responsible for bringing Black Friday to the UK, made the decision to not 'do' Black Friday at all. That proved to be an expensive decision.

By comparison, that same year John Lewis UK reported that its Black Friday performance returned the highest weekly sales in the company’s 150-year history. Check out our best John Lewis Black Friday deals 2017 hub for more information on that.

So this November, expect all the main retailers like Amazon, Argos, John Lewis, Currys and ASOS to be running deals across every range of products. Black Friday is traditionally the home of deals on electricals, clothing and shoes, but you can also expect hot promotions on everything else from mobile phone contracts to VPN services and broadband subscriptions.

The impact of Black Friday in the UK

Black Friday has transformed the Christmas shopping season, for better and for worse.

James Miller, senior retail consultant at Experian Marketing Services, told the BBC that “there is little doubt Black Friday has dramatically changed the way people shop in the run-up to Christmas and has created an expectation of deep discounts that arguably did not exist before,” while a report by LCP Consulting found that nearly one-third of UK and US retailers believe that Black Friday is “unprofitable and unsustainable."

Before Black Friday became a big deal, the run-up to Christmas was a great period for retailers: we’d buy loads of presents for others and for ourselves, and retailers would make huge piles of money. Then Black Friday happened, and all of a sudden many of us were browsing the bargains for the presents to put in Santa’s sack. Money spent on deeply discounted products in November is money that won’t be spent on more profitable products in December.

According to research by Verdict Retail, there is “no evidence” that Black Friday “stimulated demand”: Black Friday is essentially a black hole that sucks in a big part of people’s pre-Christmas shopping. We buy more but pay less for it.

According to Mike Watkins of Nielsen UK, “Whilst Nielsen analysis shows that Black Friday in November 2014 did not deliver incremental food sales it did serve to kick start what was the slowest start to Christmas trading in over 10 years. Perhaps that’s the primary objective in these changing times.”

Gary Booker, CMO at Dixons Retail, told Marketing Week that Black Friday negatively affects purchases in the following weeks: “It takes sales out of what would have been key early weeks in December,” he said, and multiple reports show that since Black Friday has taken off in the UK we’re spending less money on Boxing Day, our previous favourite for bargain hunting.

That means retailers need to think very carefully about Black Friday: they can discount in the hope they’ll make up for the lower margins with higher volumes, or they can decide not to take part in Black Friday and potentially lose sales to rivals who do.

The deals on Black Friday 2017 won't be so crazy

Black Friday 2014 was particularly silly in the UK: while grown men and women knocked each other over to try and get cheap Polaroid TVs in supermarkets, men and women knocked over loads of websites too. Many retailers weren’t prepared for the volume of online traffic and their servers couldn’t cope.

Other firms that hadn’t thought Black Friday was a particularly big deal tried to get in on the action. The result felt rather like some firms were running around with a pricing gun, discounting whatever they spotted.

Black Friday 2015 was very different. Websites coped just fine - although some raised eyebrows with “oh! We’re so busy you’ll have to queue!” warnings that seemed more about marketing than reflecting actual demand - and retailers had a strategy in place. Where previous Black Fridays were crazy, Black Friday 2015 was calm. The difference? Planning.

Retailers knew what to expect, had struck deals with suppliers well in advance and approached Black Friday like any other shopping event. There were still bargains to be had, but it certainly didn’t feel like bargain-conscious customers were getting one over on panicking retailers.

Black Friday 2016 was different again: for many big-name retailers, instead of everything happening on one day, their sales were spread over an entire week from the Monday before Black Friday to Cyber Monday, the Monday immediately after. Cyber Monday used to be a separate event, the day everybody panicked and thought “oh no! It’s nearly Christmas and I haven’t bought any presents!” before visiting Amazon on their work PCs. But in 2016 it was just another part of Black Friday Deals Week.

As Experian’s Richard Jenkings told the BBC, “The Black Friday promotions at the end of November are the start of a longer, more drawn-out peak season, which begins with most of the activity online and then moves in-store as we get closer and closer to Christmas day.”

What to expect from Black Friday 2017:

The last few Black Friday deals periods saw many retailers taking baby steps, but in 2017 they’re all grown up. That means they’ve been poring over their spreadsheet models since the last Black Friday, and they know exactly what they’ll be doing this year. And the first thing they’ll be doing is trying to beat Black Friday by starting their deals early. What started as Black Friday weekend became Black Friday week, and this year we expect some big-name retailers to start discounting long before that.

Early discounting makes sense for many reasons: it spreads the load on their websites and shops, and more importantly it means the news of their deals won’t be buried amid the avalanche of Black Friday announcements. So keep your eyes peeled - and keep visiting our deals homepage - from early November, and maybe even earlier than that.

Something we saw a lot of in 2016 and expect to see even more of in 2017 is a sliding scale of discounting: we noticed deals got bigger and better as the month progressed. That’s likely to recur in 2017, with reasonable deals at the beginning of the Black Friday period and more exciting but limited quantity deals on Black Friday itself. The emphasis will be on the more expensive products where retailers can cut prices but still make a decent profit.

Black Friday 2017 FAQ: what it is, when it happens and where to get the best deals

What is Black Friday?

Black Friday is the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving. It’s a day when retailers offer big discounts to kick-start the holiday shopping season so it's a great time to buy phones, consoles, shoes and clothes.

When is Black Friday 2017?

Black Friday 2017 will be on Friday, 24 November.

When is Cyber Monday 2017?

Cyber Monday 2017 will be on Monday, 27 November. It's another day of deals - specifically online - though it's bigger in America.

What is Black Friday deals week?

It’s the week that includes Black Friday. Retailers are increasingly offering deals before and after Black Friday itself so they stand out from the crowd.

Are Black Friday deals real?

Yes, although in some cases the discounts have been negotiated well in advance with suppliers. As with any sales you’ll see a mix of genuine bargains, discounted end-of-line stock and mysterious things found in the back of a warehouse somewhere. In 2016, consumer magazine Which? accused retailers of some pretty dodgy behaviour.

Where can I find the best Black Friday deals?

Right here on TechRadar of course! We scour all the top retailers’ Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals so that you don’t have to - and we tell you whether the deals are worth getting excited about too. Whether it’s a 4K HDR OLED TV or an Xbox One controller, if it’s discounted we’ll have the details here.

How do I get the best Black Friday 2017 deals?

Know what you want, know what you can afford to spend and know the market: you’ll often spot retailers charging higher than usual prices in October so they can offer amazing discounts on Black Friday. Pay particular attention to real prices, not RRPs: TVs are particularly bad for this, with sets whose RRP is eleventy billion pounds routinely selling for five hundred quid. Sites such as CamelCamelCamel and PriceSpy enable you to tell if you’re looking at a legitimate bargain or some timed tomfoolery.

It’s also a very good idea to be flexible: for example, if you fancy a Sony 4K TV then think about the features you want rather than a specific model number: the BRV123ABD54-88C-9218-B may not be discounted on Black Friday, but an almost identical set with the specification you want probably will be.

Can I get cashback on Black Friday deals?

Sometimes, yes. Your debit card or credit card may offer cashback on purchases, and sites such as Quidco often offer cashback for new customers of big-name online shops. It’s definitely worth looking into, not just for Black Friday but for any online shopping.

Am I protected when I buy on Black Friday?

Yes. In the UK, anything you buy from a company online is covered by a wealth of consumer protection legislation including the Consumer Contracts regulations, which give you the same rights as with any other online purchasing.

How can I stay safe on Black Friday?

Black Friday brings out the scammers as well as the sellers, so be wary of unsolicited emails or links to deals on social media no matter how legitimate they look: anything asking for card details or login details is a scam. Phishing sites do big business on Black Friday, so be extra suspicious - and if you’re on a PC, make sure your security software is up to date. Many suites automatically block known scam sites.